![]() ![]() ![]() It was sacked and largely abandoned in 1685, but only finally destroyed during Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Capital of the Guge kingdom, Tsaparang was founded in the far west of Tibet in the ninth century. Years ago, back in his corner shop in rainy Manchester, my father used to dream of Tibet, of lamas and monasteries, of snow leopards and real-life Shangri-Las.Īmong the books on his shelf was Lama Govinda’s The Way of the White Clouds – a last glimpse of the ‘lost’ city of Tsaparang before the Chinese invasion brought an end to the old world of Tibet. ![]()
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